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Re: Beginnings-Where we started - cnw1961 - 01-03-2010
Good idea to start this thread!
Here is a pic of my first attempt at building a layout about 6 years ago when I got back into the hobby after being away from it for 35 years. I did not finish this layout and it did not get far beyond the stage you can see in this pic. Unfortunately I don’t have any pics of the layout that I had when I was a child.
![[Image: first_attempt.jpg]](http://www.cnw.mattheydesign.de/first_attempt.jpg)
Re: Beginnings-Where we started - Roger Hensley - 01-03-2010
Well, as long as we are talking a few years back. here is one from about 1990 amd then two showing the same area today.
![[Image: eastydlg.jpg]](http://cid.railfan.net/eci/eastydlg.jpg)
![[Image: 0083a.jpg]](http://cid.railfan.net/eci/0083a.jpg)
![[Image: 0081a.jpg]](http://cid.railfan.net/eci/0081a.jpg)
Re: Beginnings-Where we started - toptrain - 01-15-2010
e-paw Wrote:Here's my Americanised version of a Beyer-Garrett. I did it when I was about 14 years old (I think). She still runs.
I remember it. It was a good use for a old American Flyier hudson boiler.
Re: Beginnings-Where we started - toptrain - 01-15-2010
A photo from a 1980s layout of mine.
frank
A Aristo Craft Columbia is nose to nose with a Mantua Mini Roller. Behind it is a ANNA Varney Little Joe, A ANNA Mantua General, A ANNA ahm Boker, A ANNA ahm or bachmann 0-6-0t, A Triang 4-4-0, and out of sight is a Tyco 4-8-0 in very early ANNA paint.
Here is a upgrade to a longer turntable and a stick built roundhouse in progress
Re: Beginnings-Where we started - toptrain - 04-13-2011
Another old photo of a long gone layout. A kitbashed B&O Hayes 10 wheeler.
frank, DAD
Re: Beginnings-Where we started - Sumpter250 - 04-13-2011
Happy to see this thread back again. We've got some new members here, and the "beginning shots" are great incentives.
....................and we all are still learning, and improving.